Josh (blue, back towards camera) preparing to quiz in dad Caleb's room (orange shirt)

We referred to this as the "racist pub quiz" because of last year, but we still weren't anywhere near prepared for some of the banter from the quizmaster.

Norwegian Wood

Tel Aviv, December 2005 Bright Tal

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Total Sausage and mash with proper gravy

Just like coldharbour lane eh!

Espresso Martini's being made by Chris Waller

Summer fair sock and bottle stall sponsored by The Sun and Doves

by Tony Lee

Photo by the Really Naked Chef

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I ate it. Yum yum. Before meeting a bank manager.

For the next several weeks, my pub quiz will not be at the pub but online via Zoom. Covid is rampant in NZ right now and the quizmaster's wife does not want him to risk catching it. I'm not keen to either.

So my team have a WhatsApp group that we can chat on. Then, at 7.15, we join Andrew's Zoom quiz, write our answers on paper, then discuss them in breakout rooms.

Tuesday, 1st March 2022.

There are only three tables taking part in the pub quiz at the Orange Tree. We asked the quizmaster (landlord?) if there's a limit to the number of people allowed on a team and he said there wasn't, before saying maybe we should form two teams, to make it fairer (on the two other smaller teams). We split down the middle. It's war!

John Swinfen-Green, MBE, leader of Merton & Wandsworth Supporter group accepting a cheque from Mark Vogt, Quizmaster at the New Town pub, London Borough of Sutton.

John is a heart patient with many years devoted service to the BHF. He also runs a Cardiac Exercise Club at St George's Tooting.

Regulars had raised £792.50 from a number of quiz evenings, with a special "dress in red" Quiz on Sunday 1st February to get RedFeb off to a flying start.

Full marks to John and our many supporters out there who are going to extreme lengths to promote the British Heart Foundation and raise those vital funds.

Have a look large and dark.

A final shot from the latest show by All Visual Arts - Vanitas - The Transience of Earthly Pleasures. On a technical level I'm rather pleased with this given the dark surroundings and the fact it was hand held.

On an architectural note I particularly like the leaded glass in the ceiling - the kind of detail which is becoming more and more scarce. The location here is 33 Portland Place, a truly magnificent eighteenth century London townhouse, location for modelling, exclusive parties and movie/TV shoots. If you can get in for a visit and a look around, I'd highly recommend it.

As for the Paradox... triptychs always make me think of the Bertrand's Box Paradox which goes thusly...

There are three boxes: a box containing two gold coins, a box with two silver coins, and a box with one of each. After choosing a box at random and withdrawing one coin at random that happens to be a gold coin, it may seem that the probability that the remaining coin is gold has a probability of 1⁄2; in fact, the probability is actually 2⁄3.

A variation is also known as the Monty Hall problem where, on a game show, a contestant is told a car is behind one door and a goat (why a goat?!) is behind the other two. The contestant picks a door and the quizmaster then opens a door to reveal a goat - the contestant is then asked if they want to swap... should they? The answer is a rather unintuitive yes.

I'll leave you to google for the detail - the seminal discussion was in Parade magazine in 1990 (apparently) and there's even an online simulator available too.

Enjoy.

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It seems that, finally, MumboJumboWorld, Buttefly Walk's freeholder has come around to their new reality: low covenants lowest common denominator shopping. Camberwell never had it so good. "fuller occupancy"

Prediction: as well as gaudy depictions of the birth of Christ (in a shop owned by Sikhs) in tantalisingly awful gilded plastic frames there will be cuddly tigers; cheap Pantene; soap flakes and bargain rizlas. Oh and a lot of colourful washing up bowls, mop heads and obscure things rattan.

with salt beef, mustard & gherkin

Der Quizmaster möchte den Straßennamen wissen.

Guessed in the Guess Where Berlin Group by Thomas Lautenschlag

South London Jazz Orchestra